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Shostakovich 5th Symphony

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Uploaded by on Apr 25, 2007

Valery Gergiev conducts and historians remind us of the horrors of Stalin's era which nearly swallowed the composer up...

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  • Here's what I think about the greatest work of all time...this symphony is about

    Mv 1 Realizing your thoughts

    Mv 2 Playing with your new ideas

    Mv 3 Having doubts, wanting to be understood

    Mv 4 Triumph! My life is mine!

  • lol. i type in shostakovichs 5th and sudenly i am reading about gay ppl. not that anythings wrong w/being homosexual.

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  • @jezmuff Don't troll.

  • @1violaplayr dude don't be gay

  • For me is Shostakovich's 5th one of the great music masterpieces of mankind....haunting music....the violins...the horns..etc... touching many levels of my soul: those beautiful transitions in expressed feeling. 

  • YouTube insures forever that our lives are intertwined via the greatest media since Gutenberg.

  • wtf, woman in the middle of the performance. Learn some manners and shut up.

  • I began to listen to this in 1974 and have admired it ever since, plus 7th and 10th symphonies. I recall as a young student writing about the 10th that there is a point in the piece where I magine the writer suddenly gets up and dances around the room celebrating freedom. I later discovered he had written it on Stalin's death. Listen to his 12th which celebrates the Russian revolution and it seems bland in comparison. To me, it's as if he was giving the Kremlin stooges what they wanted.

  • @1violaplayr Good for you. You are absolutely right.

  • homosexuality is gay

  • It is quite weird to read categorical opinions of foreigners. Guys, your interpretaions of Shostakovich music is too much ideologized.

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